Buyer's guide · updated 2026-06-21

Tools to fly through your knowledge graph in 3D, drill to a file, and read it inline.

For a ~294,000-node second brain (projects, files, memories, agents) sitting in Neo4j / Supabase plus real files on disk. Here is what you can buy today, how each one works, what it costs, and the honest gaps.

Best turnkey fit
Kineviz GraphXR
True 3D, native Neo4j
See all 294k at once
Graphistry
GPU, free tier
Renders the real file
TheBrain 15
$219 one-time
The honest headline: no single off-the-shelf product does all four at once (true 3D + connects to your data + renders the real leaf file + 294k scale). Graph-DB tools connect and scale but only show a property panel. Note apps render content beautifully but only over their own notes and choke past a few thousand nodes. GraphXR gets you ~80% there.

At a glance

Tool 3D? Your data? Renders real file? 294k scale? Price / trial
Kineviz GraphXRYesNeo4j native + CSV/SQLPartial (image yes, md no)Query subsetsFree Lite + cloud quote
Graphistry2D GPUNeo4j + CSV/Parquet/PandasNo (attributes only)Yes, fullHub Free / $83 mo
TheBrain 152.5DNo (own store)Yes, bestNav tool$219 one-time
Neo4j Bloom / Aura2DNeo4j onlyPartial (raw props)SubscenesAura ~$65/GB mo
Linkurious2DNeo4j / Neptune nativeYes (record panels)SubgraphsEUR 490/user mo+
Obsidian + 3D pluginYesMarkdown vault onlyYes, nodes are filesNo (low thousands)Free / $50 yr
Cosmograph2D GPUCSV upload (live = SDK)NoYesFree (non-commercial)
Memgraph Lab2DCSV / Neo4j importNo~32k testedFree Community

Pricing pulled from vendor pages 2026-06-21. GraphXR cloud is quote-only; the often-cited ~$5k+/mo is a dated third-party estimate, confirm with their sales.

The tools, in detail

What I would actually do

Start here, $0

Self-host GraphXR Lite (free, Docker) against a restored Neo4j of your brain for a true 3D fly-through. Add Graphistry Hub Free to see the whole 294k at once in 2D.

If content rendering matters most

Trial TheBrain 15 (30 days) to feel the click-a-node, read-the-real-note experience. Catch: it cannot ingest your Neo4j or markdown, so it is a reader, not a window into your live brain.

Most premium / gamified

GraphXR full cloud is the only buyable product close to the cinematic fly-through-your-brain experience without writing code. Quote-only.